Look to the east before sunrise on June 22 to catch the delicate form of the crescent moon shining with Venus alongside the Pleiades star cluster. Stargazers in the U.S. can find the cosmic trio ...

On June 22, the moon, Venus and the Pleiades star cluster will form an extraordinary celestial triangle in the predawn sky ...

This Sunday, June 22, offers a breathtaking sky show, with a stunning triangular alignment of the waning crescent moon, the ...

The Pleiades are an asterism, or pattern of stars, as well as an open star cluster, made up of more than 1,000 stars. They are located in the constellation Taurus and are about 410 light-years ...

An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Have you ever seen the Pleiades? The closest and most spectacular open cluster of stars will this week become an easy target ...

New Zealand observes Matariki, the Māori New Year, as a public holiday. Celebrations include dawn ceremonies and cultural ...

The moon has a date with the Seven Sisters star cluster, also known as the Pleiades, in the early morning hours of Friday, July 14. Skywatchers on Earth won't be the only ones looking over this ...

Small, rocky planets that could resemble Earth or Mars may be forming around one of the hundreds of stars in the Pleiades cluster, astronomers reported Wednesday. The star, known as HD 23514 ...

NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) documented a mesmerizing space scene on Monday, capturing the moments a massive “coronal mass ejection” erupted from the surface of the sun ...